Sally Anne
Stone
Partner
“Sally Anne Stone is an absolute star, the most engaging, bright and impressive lawyer in Dublin. Her advice is always on point.”
Real Estate: The European Legal 500
Sally Anne is Head of the Commercial Real Estate Department at Matheson.
She is an accomplished and commercially focused lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in acquisitions and disposals across all asset classes; site development; commercial landlord and tenant; real estate investment, commercial real estate aspects of corporate transactions, including the sale and purchase of both private and public companies; and advising owner/occupiers on the acquisition of office, industrial, manufacturing, and technical/data centre premises.
Experience and Education
- Acting for Goldman Sachs on the sale of the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, spanning 1.2 million square feet of space, 180 stores and restaurants and serving around 16 million visitors annually (the largest real-estate deal of the year in 2024);
- Acting for Arrow Global on the acquisition of the Square Tallaght, which is distributed across 570,000 square feet, containing over 130 retail units and a 13-screen cinema;
- Advising a global technology company on development of a new data centre campus (value of over €1 billion), which included preparing a bespoke lease agreement linking rent to power usage;
- Advising EY on the letting of its new HQ in Dublin 2’s Wilton Park Development;
- Advising BNY on the letting of its new Head Quarters Office in Dublin 2;
- Advising a French investment vehicle on the acquisition of a fully let office block in Cherrywood, Co Dublin;
- Advising Oxley Holding and Ballymore Group on the letting and sale of Dublin Landings which includes over 600,000 square feet of office space, more than 300 residential units, a number of retail and restaurant units, public amenities and city streets;
- Advising Ballymore Group on the development of Dublin Arch, which will include 111,000 square metres of homes and office space and Ireland’s first Standard Hotel along with retail and restaurant units;
- Advising Macquarie Asset Management in relation to its €400 million acquisition of the Beacon Hospital in Dublin, subject to customary regulatory approvals. The Hospital is one of Ireland’s leading private hospitals and treats over 200,000 patients every year; and
- Acting for a number of high profile multinational IT product and service companies and other international businesses establishing their presence in Ireland in both prime Dublin city centre and other regional locations varying in size from 20,000 to 200,000 square foot.
- University College Dublin, Bachelor of Business and Legal Studies
- Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland
- Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (non-practising)
- Admitted as a chartered tax consultant in Ireland
